SPECIALIST PRACTITIONERS WORKING WITH INT. EXPERIENCE DESIGNERS:
User Experience (UX) Designer
User interface (UI) Designer
Interaction Designer
Typographer
Illustrators
Web designers
Architects
Artists
Programmers
Game designers
Animation designers
Writers
Exhibition and display designers
Advertising and art directors
Interior designers
Multimedia specialists
Patent and copyright specialists.
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Ability to communicate with clients
Creative and critical thinking
Ability to work to deadlines, within a budget according to costs and common constraints outlined in a given design brief
Understanding the user experience and behaviours, user fatigue, functionality cause and effect, usability
Understand ethical and legal obligations associated with copyright, attribution, cultural sensitivity, image manipulation, plagiarism and sustainable practices.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
DIGITAL
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe X (wireframe layouts)
InVision
Lucid Chart
Sketch
MANUAL
Visualisation drawing skills to convey ideas
Iconography and function design
DESIGNERS MAY WORK
With a range of design specialists
Freelance
In House for a large company (Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc).
CONVENTIONS - VISUAL LANGUAGE
Typographic conventions
Icons and imagery
Grids and layouts
Functionality and buttons (cause and effect)
Flow of design (interaction)
File formats (screens/device platforms)
Wireframe drawings
Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception